Re: texinfo-6.7.90 pretest

[Gavin Smith]

On Tue, Mar 02, 2021 at 01:31:37PM +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> 
> Hello Gavin,
> 
> Op 23-02-2021 om 22:12 schreef Gavin Smith:
> > The first pretest for the next Texinfo release has been uploaded to
> > 
> > https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-6.7.90.tar.xz
> 
> In the POT file I see a large new string (pasted at the end of this email).
> Such enormous pieces of text are annoying to translate: 1) the translator
> cannot see msgid and msgstr in a single, small movement of the eye, and 2)
> translation memory is not of any help.  What's more: if ever an option is
> added or removed or changed, the /whole/ translation of this message is
> invalidated, wasting a bunch of work.  And, in such a changed big message,
> it is hard for the translator to find out /what/ was changed.

OK thank you for checking over the POT file and finding the problem.  I
will look into what happened.  I have in fact never knowingly made any
changes or done any work on pod2texi, or paid it any attention at all.
I'm guessing that its strings were never translated before but now this
string has been included automatically in the POT file.